St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-08
n The First Week in May Shows Signs
That it Will Soon Don Sum-
mer Garments,
And There Are Indications That Lake
Side Clothes Will Soon be Got
ten Ready for Use.
DOings of the Upper Ten of Capital
City Society During the
Past Six Days.
Numerous Points of a Purely Personal
Nature That Are of General
Local Interest.

Gradually the cOlorS of street gar
mentS change with the near approach
Of high temperature and long days.
Black is now relegated TO the aged and
The clerically inclined; and youth and
maiden, young benedict and matr0n,
master and miss turn out in the gayer
.lntS and combinations. The first har-
oinger of the approaching carnival of
high-cOlOred costume was the striped
trousers. The drab derby is supplant
ing the jet-black stove-pipe, and the
white vest is to repeat itself as
4 necessity of fashion. Not long hence
one will see the picture upon nearly
every street corner of Il young gentle
man attired in gray flannel, light straw
hat, big checkered necktie, and dainty
shoes of a fawn cOlOr-a Spic-and-Span
person, too neat to mar tablecloth, and
too delicate to cross the muddy Sprinkled
street. And the young and marriage
able maiden, who will pass by him-she
will be just Il little daisy i'll nice white
muslin, with such transparent sleeves of
flmy. gauZe-like material such as may
allow the delicate complexion of her
arms to show to good advantage and
perfect charm.
The sights will be different at the
lakeside. The youths OF Herculean
physique and Apollo face will lounge
lazily in gray flannel shirts and blouses
of navy blue flannel, with pantaloons of
striped brown or checkered cash
mere; and these reckless young
gentlemen will care little for
the mandates of fashion so long as the
paramount question is to keep cool and
drink Soda-water and lemO', save that
some do prefer COOL frOthy lager. They
will swim, sail, row and fish without
any fear of getting soiled. The toilets
~ cn hot
they, too, may enjoy the CLASSY surface
of the lake and trip lightly upon the
beach without the awful dread of be-
Spattered skirts.
Just contrast the ease and luxury of
tent life as against the bee-like exist
ence of voluntary imprisonment in the
dusty and Smoke-cOvered city. The de-
liciOus shade of big-limbed trees, the
abandon of Velvety carpet of greeneSt
grass, the soft balmy breeze from the
whispering lake, the refreshing dip in
the cool clear water-theSe are
some of the advantages of lake life; on
the other side there are the baked brick
walls of monOtOnOuS streets, the pen of a
room looking out upon mass of Swelt-
ering humanity, the din and buzz of
awful bodily eXertion and moving ma
SRinery, and the SwarmS of flies and
HtgS and all manner of strange things.
10 it any wonder the elite take to the
lakes and the sea coasts.
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But speaking about sea-coasts brings
to Snind another thing. AS it was last
last summer upon the salty beach so
will it be this summer, and for all flu
ture summers, until the next great social
revolution and upturning of prevailing
freaks and customs. To battle, to drive,
to sail, to tlirt, to fan, to sigh,
TO talk lightly, to eat, drink
and sleep-when you can-to at
tend parties, to perspire and wish
be it in business or society, on farm or
in palace, among the mountains OF by
the seaside. And the upshot of it will
be that some matches will be made, as
they were last year-the same old story.